Head of the Kurdistan Islamic Group (KIG) in the Council of Representatives Salim Shushkay said on Tuesday (February 18) that Prime Minister-designate Mohammed Tawfiq Allawi has rejected demands by th

Denmark will send its military personnel back to the Iraqi al-Asad base on March 1, after last month temporarily moving some of them to Kuwait due to security concerns, the Danish Defense Minister Tri

The top United Nations envoy to Iraq condemned on Monday (February 17) the use of hunting rifles firing birdshot against peaceful protesters in Baghdad and urged the government to ensure they are not

Rockets hit a US-led military coalition’s Baghdad headquarters early on Sunday (February 16) but caused no casualties, a coalition spokesman said, in the latest attack to target US facilities in Iraq.

Prime Minister-designate Mohammed Tawfiq Allawi said on Saturday (February 15) that his cabinet slate is close to being complete and that he will announce ministerial candidates this week.

A rocket hit a base in northern Iraq that hosts US forces on Thursday (February 13) but caused no casualties, Iraqi security sources said.

NATO defense ministers agreed on Wednesday (February 12) to expand the Western alliance’s training mission in Iraq, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said, responding to a demand by US President

The United States has agreed to extend a waiver for Iraq to import Iranian energy supplies, including gas, two Iraqi government officials said on Monday (February 10).

Iraq’s top Shia Muslim cleric on Friday (February 7) condemned deadly violence that killed protesters at sit-ins this week in the southern holy city of Najaf and said a new government must have the tr

When Rainas Elias was 14, Islamic State militants overran her Ezidi homeland in northern Iraq, kidnapped her and sold her to a fighter who repeatedly raped and tortured her before selling her to an ev

A day after at least eight protesters were killed in Najaf in clashes with a Sadrist militia, prime minister-designate Mohammed Tawfiq Allawi addressed the incident in a brief speech, saying that the

At least eight people were killed in clashes in Iraq’s southern city of Najaf on Wednesday after supporters of populist cleric Moqtada al-Sadr stormed an anti-government protest camp, medical and secu

University and institute graduates protested in Kirkuk on Wednesday (February 5) against the local education directorate's decision to scrap its recently issued plans to hire more than 2,000 people be

Universities in Baghdad prepare on Tuesday (February 4) for what they called “million" protest.

A member of the Iraqi High Commission For Human Rights (IHCHR) has said that 536 people have been killed during the anti-government protest movement, including seventeen members of the security forces

Shia cleric and political leader Moqtada al-Sadr issued a statement on Sunday (February 2) calling on his followers to work to put down major protest actions across Iraq in coordination with the secur

Protests continued in Iraq’s southern provinces on Sunday (February 2), a day after Mohamed Tawfiq Allawi was appointed as prime minister-designate, with demonstrators cutting roads in Dhi Qar and Naj

Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Iraq Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert welcomed the appointment of Mohammed Tawfiq Allawi as prime minister designate in a statement released on Saturda

New Prime Minister Mohammed Tawfiq Allawi appealed to downtrodden Iraqis for their support on Saturday (February 1) hours after his appointment by President Barham Salih, but protesters were already r

Forces loyal to Shia cleric and political leader Moqtada al-Sadr took control of the Turkish Restaurant building on Tahrir Square in Baghdad on Saturday (February 1), wresting the iconic protest site